[MUD-Dev] FW: [uodevlist] OT - Lawsuit on Lum's

[Josh Olson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Rickey" <daver at mythicgames.com>
>     Volunteer programs are dead, I'd expect UO's to be disbanded or
sharply
> cut (to reduce potential liability without giving the plaintiffs more
> evidence) within weeks, and EQ and AC to follow shortly thereafter.
Future
> titles won't have them.  Overall CS quality is going to drop
significantly.

That's quite a prophecy.

It's been said here repeatedly: don't bother trying to interfere with what
players want to do.  Volunteer programs are a one-two punch: players want to
do it AND it benefits the company.  Where there's a will, there's a way...
volunteerism will be back.

>     What I really love about the interview is where the
> bottom-fe^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hlawyers say that they don't *want* to destroy the
> industry, but they don't think it deserves to exist.  At least, not if its
> continued existence get in the way of a fat payday for them....

Lawyers don't exist in a vacuum.  Somebody had to come up with the idea of
cashing in on their Counselor experience, and it probably wasn't the lawyer.

-Josh Olson







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